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Hack Night, 2012 June 4

Randy worked on reviving an Apple Time Capsule. The dead internal power supply was removed so an external supply could be substituted. A power connector was salvaged (using the fine desoldering tool provided by Branden) from a surplus computer power supply so as to add a new power plug to the external supply. The supply was then tested and found to properly power the Time Capsule.

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I (Karl) continued to work on my Visual Timer project, and am in the process of adding a couple of buttons for setting the timer length from the board rather than setting it within the sketch.

Quick summary of Visual Timer: controlled by an Arduino UNO, a sequence of green LEDs dim and go out as the timer counts down. When the timer expires, all green LEDs will be dark and a red LED will light up.